“So ‘Mahogany Hall Stomp’ celebrates Lulu White’s magnificent New Orleans brothel, and not a dance hall as we thought. Wait till I tell the chaps the next time we play it. (We call it Hogmanay Hall Stomp, anyway.)”

“I’m so pleased that the true story of the birth of the Dinner Jacket is told, and how it became later known as the Tuxedo. Thankfully the elegant White Tie and Tails, The Dress Suit still survives for more formal functions.”

“I know it’s a bit of an Irish Guards family secret, but the story of how our great Irish Victoria Cross hero ‘Patrick Kenneally’ was actually an Englishman called Leslie Jackson is still rather amazing.”